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March 1 - Psalm 106 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  High Life friends. It's shown here.
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  It is the 1st of March. A pinch and a punch and all that
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  jazz. Welcome to the next season.
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  In our part of the world, that means springtime is a long way
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  away. We are entering autumn.
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  Ah yeah, the long days will start to become a bit shorter
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  and things will get a little bit cooler.
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  The cycle continues. Isn't it wonderful?
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  And our cycle continues, friends, Here at the end of the
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  week, the beginning of a new month, our cycle brings us back
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  to the Psalms. And today we have got this.
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  This is kind of like a sound that all of us have kind of
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  shared at some point. In the other.
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  It is a Psalm of praise where the psalmist is like, oh, we
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  really missed a trick. You know, we should have been
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  praising you, but we were just bothered and confused and cranky
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  and did the wrong thing. But Gee, we just should have
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  been praising you. Praise you.
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  Now it it's like this praise lament of all the lost
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  opportunities, that they should have lived more closely with
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  God. And if we look back at our
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  lives, I'm sure we think we could have done that
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  differently. Oh, I should have done that
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  differently. That's you.
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  This, Sam, is for you. Gotta love the sounds, right?
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  They always seem to find a way to get a foothold into our
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  experience. Every part of it hires and lows
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  and in betweens and OHS with onlies.
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  So that's where we are today. Let us read this together,
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  friends. Sam 106 Praise the Lord.
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  Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.
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  His faithful love endures forever.
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  Who can list the glorious miracles of the Lord?
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  Who can ever praise him enough? There is joy for those who deal
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  justly with others and always do what is right.
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  Remember Me, Lord, when you show favour to your people, come near
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  and rescue me. Let me share in the prosperity
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  of your chosen ones. Let me rejoice in the joy of
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  your people. Let me praise you with those who
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  are your heritage. Like our ancestors, we have
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  sinned. We have done wrong.
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  We have acted wickedly. Our ancestors in Egypt were not
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  impressed by the Lord's miraculous deeds.
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  They soon forgot his many acts of kindness to them.
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  Instead, they rebelled against him at the Red Sea.
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  Even so, he saved them. To defend the honour of his name
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  and to demonstrate his mighty power, he commanded the Red Sea
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  to dry up. He led Israel across the sea as
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  if it were a desert. So he rescued them from their
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  enemies and redeemed them from their foes.
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  Then the water returned and covered their enemies.
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  Not one of them survived then. His people believed his
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  promises. Then they sang his praise.
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  Yet how quickly they forgot what he had done.
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  They wouldn't wait for his counsel in the wilderness.
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  Their desires ran wild, testing God's patience in that dry
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  wasteland. So he gave them what they asked
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  for, and he sent a plague along with it.
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  The people in the camp were jealous of Moses and envious of
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  Aaron, the Lord's holy priest. Because of this, the earth
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  opened up. It swallowed Dathan and buried
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  Abram and the other rebels. Fire fell upon their followers.
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  Aflame consumed the wicked. The people made a calf at Mount
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  Sinai. They bowed before an image made
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  of gold. They traded their glorious God
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  for a statue of a grass eating bull.
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  They forgot God, their Saviour, who had done such great things
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  in Egypt, such wonderful things in the land of Ham, such awesome
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  deeds at the Red Sea. So he declared he would destroy
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  them. But Moses, his chosen 1, stepped
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  between the Lord and the people. He begged him to turn from his
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  anger and not destroy them. The people refused to enter the
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  pleasant land, for they wouldn't believe his promise to care for
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  them. Instead, they grumbled in their
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  tents and refused to obey the Lord.
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  Therefore he solemnly swore that he would kill them in the
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  wilderness, that he would scatter their descendants among
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  the nations, exiling them to distant lands.
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  Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peel.
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  They even ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
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  They angered the Lord with all these things, so a plague broke
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  out among them. But Phineas had the courage to
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  intervene, and the plague was stopped, so he has been regarded
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  as a righteous man ever since that time at Marabar. 2 They
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  angered the Lord, causing Moses serious trouble.
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  They made Moses angry, and he spoke foolishly.
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  Israel failed to destroy the nations in the land as the Lord
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  had commanded them. Instead, they mingled among the
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  pagans and adopted their evil customs.
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  They worship their idols which led to their downfall.
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  They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the
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  demons. They shed innocent blood, the
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  blood of their sons and daughters.
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  By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan.
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  They polluted the land with murder.
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  They defile themselves by their evil deeds, and their love of
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  idols. Was adultery in the Lord's
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  sight. That is why the Lord's anger
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  burned against his people and he aborted his own special
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  possession. He handed them over to Pagan
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  nations, and they were ruled by those who hated them.
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  Their enemies crushed them and brought them under their cruel
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  power. Again and again he rescued them,
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  but they chose to rebel against him, and they were finally
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  destroyed by their sin. Even so, he pitied them in their
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  distress and listened to their cries.
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  He remembered his covenant with them and relented because of his
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  unfailing love. He even caused their captors to
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  treat them with kindness. Save us, our Lord our God.
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  Gather us back from among the nations so we can thank Your
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  holy Name and rejoice and praise You.
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  Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, who lives from
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  everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say Amen.
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  Praise the Lord. Gee, it's easy to read this,
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  Simon. To sit in quiet judgement of the
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  people doing the wrong thing again and again and again.
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  But if we look at our lives there, we are making bad
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  choices, choosing our own wisdom over yours, choosing our own
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  priorities over yours. Listening to the 100 voices
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  around us rather than to yours. And so we acknowledge that we
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  are just pitiful, sinful people, and we are in need of your
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  saving. And here in our lives, where we
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  fail again and again, as the psalmist exclaims, you continue
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  toward us with your unfailing love.
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  You just never fail to love us, no matter what we bring to the
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  table. Oh yes, so grateful for your
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  graciousness, your mercy and your love never failing.
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  We just praise you. We praise you.
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  We love you, and we are so appreciative of that grace, and
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  it's in the gracious name of Jesus that we pray these things.
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  Ah man, praise the Lord.